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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

"Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is non-susceptible to the action of METHICILLIN. The mechanism of resistance usually involves modification of normal or the presence of acquired PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEINS.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 413 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 42 publications in 2012
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.